Halloween is huge in the city that loves to throw on a mask, while Christmas features numerous fiery festivals along the waterfront, including Celebration in the Oaks, when the colourful lights are festooned around City Park.
The family of a man stabbed to death while attending a Christmas party at a Rochdale nightclub have paid tribute to him.
It is rumoured that Vera Duckworth will be involved in her own health scare at Christmas while donating a kidney to her errant son Terry's grandchild.
She sat chained in a van outside Scotland Yard all one Christmas, in 1974, while a friend blew the lights on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.
BIGresearch estimates that 94% of midwinter holiday celebrators will observe Christmas, while only 5% will celebrate Chanukah.
Her approach to alcohol changed when she overslept on Christmas morning while her children were unwrapping their presents.
Neilia was killed in a car accident in 1972 along with their one-year-old daughter, Naomi while the family was Christmas shopping.
Both firms believe that busy shoppers will welcome the opportunity to do a bit of Christmas shopping while they hang around for a bus.
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While many holiday revellers spend Christmas tucking in to a bird with all the trimmings, Sydney locals eat from a cold menu of seafood and prawns before heading to the beach on Christmas Day.
While the United States widely celebrates Christmas, China is largely non-religious, with over 60% of the population considering themselves agnostic or atheist.
While the United States calendar for Christmas shopping is favorable, since there are extra selling days before Christmas, this is not the case in Germany.
Earlier this month, for example, Sony said that demand for its new Daily Edition Reader is so strong that while it hopes to fill orders by Christmas, it can't guarantee a delivery date.
Mr Chestnutt's parents plan to spend Christmas with him in Thailand, while his visa is being processed.
The 76-year-old suffered a fall while practising cross-country skiing during the Christmas holidays.
The prosecutor said Miss Dudley had gone looking for the boy while visiting Pocock's home just after Christmas 2007.
Most victims are nabbed while visiting family, often around holidays like Christmas.
The largest is Rathausplatz , an Austrian take on Santa's Village laid out around City Hall and a great destination for children, who enjoy all manner of Christmas Eve arts and crafts classes while their parents hurry home to play Santa.
Tesco's Christmas figures will be out on Thursday while Sainsbury's will update the markets on Wednesday.
Succour for parents while their kids are out crashing the car over Christmas.
This is what you will listen to while you watch jolly old Al Roker light that Christmas tree tonight.
This time, young Kevin McCallister mistakenly boards a plane to Gotham while his folks fly off to Miami for their Christmas vacation.
Thieves stole Christmas presents from a Surrey road crash victim while he was being treated in hospital.
"While book sales usually peak in the run up to Christmas, the move by consumers to use traditional book retailers simply for window shopping before purchasing online at discount prices has seriously impacted this sector, which has already suffered considerably from the growing popularity of e-book readers, " she said.
Camera chain Jessops has gone under, music and DVD group HMV has closed 66 stores, while electrical chain Comet closed its doors for the last time before Christmas.
Endless snowflakes fell from an opalescent Austrian sky and stayed on our noses and eyelashes while we warmed up with cups of clove-and-orange Christmas tea from Demmers Teehaus , Vienna's best.
His hesitation has been understandable: powerful lobbies on one side have insisted that fast-track deals must be Christmas-treed with onerous labour and environmental provisions, while free-market Republicans vowed to kill any fast-track so adorned.
While I expect a stepped up promotional program for the current important Christmas selling season, I continue to believe that the company will report in the fourth quarter drop in sales of about 20% from the previous year.
While you may be tempted by that triptych depicting "The Night Before Christmas, " for beginners, it's best to start small with simple, deeply carved molds, which are more forgiving for clumsy hands and yield specimens that hold their shape well while baking.
The MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse said that sales in the two months prior to Christmas were higher by 0.7 percent versus last year, while analysts had expected growth of 3 to 4 percent.
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